Authors:Francisco Rodriguez Adrados, Gert-Jan Van Dijk,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: latin, fable, graeco, classica, batava, supplementum, bibliotheca, documentation, inventory, history, mnemosyne
Number of Pages: 1100
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $484.00
ISBN-10: 9004118918
ISBN-13: 9789004118911
This third volume of the history of Graeco-Latin fable offers an inventory and documentation of the Classical fable tradition in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It refers to fables in more than 20 different languages, and the original Spanish edition has been enlarged with less than 350 new fables.
Author: Philip de Souza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: world, roman, graeco, piracy
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-08-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521012406
ISBN-13: 9780521012409
This book is an historical study of piracy in the ancient Greek and Roman world. It examines the origins and growth of piracy, the impact of piracy on trade, and the relationship between warfare and piracy, and evaluates attempts to suppress piracy by the states and rulers of the ancient world. A major innovation is the author’s discussion of the way that pirates and piracy are portrayed in major works of classical literature, including Homer, Cicero and the ancient novels.
Authors:John S. Kloppenborg, Stephen G. Wilson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, roman, graeco, associations, voluntary
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-12-03
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0415135931
ISBN-13: 9780415135931
Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults. Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, those groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of religious as well as social commitments.
Author: T. M. Green
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: graeco, roman, world, religions, harran, god, religious, traditions, city
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1997-08
List price: $166.00
ISBN-10: 9004095136
ISBN-13: 9789004095137
This study treats the religious and intellectual history of the city of Harran (Eastern Turkey) from biblical times down to the establishment of Islam. The author starts from the well-known reference in the Qur’an and the early Islamic histories to the people of Harran as Sabians, one of the `peoples of the book.’ The author unravels strands of religious tradition in Harran that run from the old Semitic planetary cults through Hellenistic hermeticism, gnosticism, and Neo-Pythagoreanism and Christian cults to esoteric Islamic sects such as the Sufis and Shiit
Author: Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: sather, classical, lectures, east, roman, writing, graeco, everyday
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2011-01-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0520267028
ISBN-13: 9780520267022
Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world--that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution--has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues, however, that ordinary people--from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan--used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segment
Author: Peter Garnsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: responses, risk, crisis, world, roman, food, supply, graeco, famine
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1989-11-24
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521375851
ISBN-13: 9780521375856
The first full-length study of famine in antiquity. The study provides detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, but also illuminates the institutional response to food crisis in the mass of ordinary cities in the Mediterranean world. Ancient historians have generally shown little interest in investigating the material base of the unique civilisations of the Graeco-Roman world, and have left unexplored the role of the food supply in framing the central institutions and practices of ancient society.
Author: Albert De Jong
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: religions, graeco, roman, world, literature, latin, magi, zoroastrianism, greek, traditions
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $374.00
ISBN-10: 9004108440
ISBN-13: 9789004108448
This volume treats the Greek and Latin references to Zoroastrianism since the works of Benveniste, Bidez and Cumont and Clemen. It focuses on the possibilities offered by the classical reports on Zoroastrianism to reconstruct the history of that faith. The text is divided into three sections: the first deals with introductory problems concerning ancient religious ethnography and current views of the history of Zoroastrianism. The second section consists of commentaries on five selected passages. Finally, the third section offers a thematical overview of the materials and their relevance for th
